John's fantasy football start 'em, sit 'em picks for Week 8 of 2025. Are the breakout performances from Oronde Gadsden, Kyle Monangai, Xavier Legette legit or flukes?

There are a lot of players who have big games seemingly out of nowhere in the course of a season. For players that aren't heavily rostered, though, it's essential to identify whether these games were indicative of breakouts or were fluke games.

Sometimes, huge games out of nowhere are followed by more consistent and higher production. Yet other times, players have big games only to regress to their previous production. An interesting wrinkle is that they often seem to lead nowhere, but then the player ends up having solid games moving forward.

Breakouts are complicated things. They can be the result of a wonky game script,

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